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après moi le déluge

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After I'm dead nothing will matter. This cliché, literally meaning "after me, the flood," was allegedly said in slightly different form in 1757 by Madame de Pompadour to Louis XV after Frederick the Great defeated the French and Austrians at Rossbach. (She put it après nous le déluge, "after us the flood.") The flood alludes to the biblical flood in which all but those on Noah's ark perished. The phrase is still always stated in French.

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